US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on Oct. 21 for "Evertable sheath devices, systems, and methods" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,030, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Evertable sheath devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Edward H. Cully (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Craig W. Irwin (Parks, Ariz.) and James D. Silverman (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure comprises devices, systems, and methods having an inverted sheath configured to cover, and in some instances constrain, a medical device and to retract through eversion, thus enabling the deployment of medical device at the treatment site. A constraining sheath can evert hydraulically. A constraining sheath can be configured to ...